I've seen this happen to a couple of post where they will be flagged as a duplicate post or an inferior post, even though they are different. I can't get the post ID since they have been deleted, and I didn't think it would happen again so I didn't bother to remember it the second time.

The first of the two that I've notice this happen to was a post that combined post #2306460 and post #2306464 into a single image. Idk why that would be considered inferior to either of the two used to create it.

The second post was a WEBM version of post #2198571. The WEBM was flagged as inferior and deleted, even though it was WEBM and the parent was not.

To my understanding, both of these were unjustified deletions of perfectly valid posts. This is probably happening more than what I've been able to notice. It's kind of annoying.

I think some kind of way for users to challenge a flag might make whoever is reviewing it to do a double take before they decide to delete the post.

I flagged the first one because basically taping two things together is usually classified as a low effort edit, and judging by the del reason given by the janitor it was also jpg saved as png. something like this would of been drawn as the full piece than later cut in half by the artist. Which is honestly made apparent by said edit. Which would mean that somewhere they have that image stored, I imagine if people asked they would probably release the full image to the public.

As far as the gif, iirc twitter doesn't actually host gifs but butcher converts them to webm than auto loops them. I could be wrong, but I think this fact is why it was deleted as inferior to the gif version, and if someone made an actual proper webm conversion from the gif it would be acceptable. Though don't quote me on that.

versperus said:
I flagged the first one because basically taping two things together is usually classified as a low effort edit, and judging by the del reason given by the janitor it was also jpg saved as png. something like this would of been drawn as the full piece than later cut in half by the artist. Which is honestly made apparent by said edit. Which would mean that somewhere they have that image stored, I imagine if people asked they would probably release the full image to the public.

As far as the gif, iirc twitter doesn't actually host gifs but butcher converts them to webm than auto loops them. I could be wrong, but I think this fact is why it was deleted as inferior to the gif version, and if someone made an actual proper webm conversion from the gif it would be acceptable. Though don't quote me on that.

Alright, all that makes plenty sense. I'll just have to suck it up then. Thanks for responding.